Prof Piers Yates
Orthopaedic Surgeon
MBBS(Hons) BSc(Hons) MRCS(Eng) FRCS(Tr & Orth) FRACS(Ortho) FAOrthA
Piers been practicing in WA as a Specialist Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon since 2006 with a particular interest in joint replacement and trauma.
He then completed three fellowships in allograft and revision joint surgery under Professor Wood and Professor Nivbrant in Perth; the Advanced hip fellowship in Bristol UK, under Professor Gordon Bannister, Mr Evert Smith, Mr Tony Ward; and lastly he completed an AO trauma fellowship in the Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Centre in Denver Colorado, USA with Professor Wade Smith, and Dr Steve Morgan.
In 2007, he became Head of Orthopaedics and Trauma at Fremantle, Kaleeya and Rockingham Hospitals. In 2006 he set up the highly successful elective joint replacement unit in Osborne Park. In 2013 he was appointed co-head of the orthopaedic department at $2 billion Fiona Stanley Hospital.
He is also Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Western Australia and previously Clinical Director of the Perth Bone and Tissue Bank.
He has have published over 50 scientific papers relating to orthopaedics, as well as book chapters. He is part of two teams designing new hip and knee replacements, and consults for several orthopaedic companies as well as the Department of Health of WA.
He has co-led the development of the DoH Musculoskeletal Elective Joint Replacement Model of Care, which provides a template for how orthopaedic services could be delivered across WA in the future.
In 2012, he was selected to represent the Australian Orthopaedic Association in the prestigious ABC fellowship
His particular interests are surgery of the hip; including total hip replacement, revision hip replacement, resurfacing of the hip, femoro-acetabular impingement, preservation of the hip, deformity correction in the adult, the young hip, hip dysplasia, minimally invasive hip replacement and alternative bearings.Surgery of the knee; including total knee replacement, revision knee replacement, unicompartmental knee replacement, knee preservation surgery and osteotomy, arthroscopy and navigation.
Trauma surgery; including upper and lower limb fracture management, pelvic and acetabular surgery, and malunion and non-union surgery.
He has a special interest in accelerated rehabilitation after joint replacement, blood management (“bloodless surgery”) and optimising postoperative pain relief. His unit at Murdoch and Fremantle has one of the lowest transfusion unit in the world, and they have published and presented on this.